Chapter Eighty-Five: Breaking the City

Tan Zhenshou heard that the soldiers were approaching the city and wanted to attack the city, so he was immediately shocked and hurriedly asked, "How many soldiers and horses are there outside the city?"

The herald reported: "There are about three or four hundred people, all cavalry. ”

When Tan Zhenshou heard this, he was so surprised that he didn't close his mouth for a while, first he wanted to laugh, and then he was very angry, and he yelled at the herald: "Bah! Just a few hundred people scared you like this, I really haven't fucking seen a scene." Pass my order to transfer all the 2,000 archers in the city to the west gate tower, and shoot these Wang Ba cakes for me. ”

At this time, Liu Jiujin led nearly 300 cavalry to call out the battle outside the city, although the number is not much, but the formation is neat, the team is arranged in a triangle, Liu Jiujin is located at the apex of the triangle, holding a long sword, the leopard's eyes are open, raising his arms and shouting, the soldiers respond in unison, and the crowd is excited.

The gate of Quyang County was closed, and the soldiers defending the city quickly gathered on the gate tower, holding their blades, looking nervously outside the city.

After a while, 2,000 archers were quickly mobilized on the top of the West City Gate, lined up, all with bows and arrows, aimed at the outside of the city. The guards guarding the city, who were still a little nervous just now, are now a little proud, and their mood is relaxed, ready to watch a good show.

When the chief in charge of guarding the West City Gate saw this, he shook his head with a smile and said, "It's a pity, these stupid people, but those horses are really good horses." Then he turned to his men and confessed: "Later, you must be quick, and when the archers have shot them clean, you will go up and bring the horses back, and sell them alive for money, and eat meat for the dead, and brothers, and make a fortune again!"

The guards of the city happily agreed in unison, and they were all grinding their fists and eager to try.

Liu Jiujin shouted and cursed outside the city for a while, and when he saw that no one in the city came out to fight, he waved his sword and shouted: "Brothers, rush for me!" and then took the lead and rushed towards the gate of the county seat.

"Rush!" The entire horse team responded in unison, and rushed out together, and suddenly there was dust outside the city, and hundreds of war horses rolled up a cloud of dust and rushed towards the county seat quickly.

The general commanding the archers on the upper floor of the city was also a veteran of a hundred battles, and it was the first time he had seen a cavalry siege, and besides, there were only a few hundred people, and he thought it was a little funny.

Seeing the enemy cavalry rushing up, the general pursed the corners of his mouth, and then slowly raised the command flag, so that the archers were ready, and when he saw that the cavalry outside the city had rushed into the range of the bow and arrow, he decisively waved the flag and gave the order: "Shoot!", only to see the two thousand archers in the city shoot arrows at the same time, and a rain of arrows rushed towards the cavalry who were galloping forward under the city.

After the rain of arrows, almost all the riders who rushed in front of the cavalry formation were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, and the hundred men behind the formation had to stop their horses in time, not daring to rush forward again.

Most of the front half of the entire cavalry triangular formation was almost completely defeated by the rain of arrows, except for a few people, the rest of the ground was shot down under the horses, and the cavalrymen who were hit by the arrows rolled painfully on the ground, only riding more than a hundred horses that were unmanned, as if frightened, still rushing towards the direction of the county gate.

The captain of the guard was overjoyed when he saw this, and he hurriedly said to the guards behind him, "Quick, go and let those horses in, and put them in the stables of my camp, and don't run away." ”

Dozens of guards hurried to the gate hole, removed all the defensive equipment against the breach, and opened the gate, ready to let the horses in.

When the more than 100 frightened horses saw the gate open, they all rushed towards the gate, and the guards went up to meet the horses, ready to take hold of the reins and stop the horses.

With a scream from one of the guards at the front, one arm flew in the air with a stream of blood, and the other guards realized that it was not an empty war horse that rushed in, but a cavalry warrior with a long sword, and they were all stunned and at a loss for a moment.

After Liu Jiujin turned over from the horse's belly and got on the horse, he swung his sword and slashed, killing several city guards in a row, and as more than 100 cavalry soldiers rushed into the city gate, the officers and soldiers guarding the city under the city were almost killed.

Chen Jinwu took the lead in riding his horse and rushed towards the city at this time, shouting: "Come with me and save General Zhang." Then he rode straight in the direction of the General Army's Palace.

As the cavalry team rushed into the city gate, more than a hundred homeless people who were still cowering under the outer city wall just now all entered the city through the city gate. Many of them have a jar of wine in their hands.

After entering the city, these homeless people broke the wine jars in their hands at several entrances to the West City Gate Tower, and the wine was spilled all over the ground, and then it was ignited again, and a raging fire suddenly ignited.

After the fire was lit, the displaced people immediately scattered in all directions, and in a moment they disappeared into the streets of the city.

As the alcohol slowly soaked into the paste in the cracks of the city wall and ignited, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and it lasted for a long time.

The soldiers and archers on the tower of the city heard the shouts of killing under the city walls, and they all turned to look inside the city, and after a while they saw a cavalry team rushing towards the city, and in the blink of an eye a fire broke out under the city, and they did not know for a while.

At this time, the remaining cavalry outside the city also began to exert their strength to continue to rush towards the city gate, and the riders who were still rolling on the ground just now jumped up and turned over their horses when the cavalry that rushed up passed them, and the two of them rode together and rushed towards the city.

The commander of the archers hurriedly shouted: "Quick, quick, aim at the target, prepare to release the arrows!" The archers heard the order, but for a moment they did not know whether to shoot into the city or outside, and for a moment they hesitated, looked at each other, and were at a loss.

The commander shouted again: "Aim outward, quick! Aim outside the city first!"

But without waiting for the archers in the city, they drew their bows and set up arrows, and more than 100 horsemen and more than 200 horsemen outside the city also rushed to the bottom of the city, and rushed in through the open gate.

The archers on the tower had to turn all the arrows and turn to the city, but at this time, the fire under the city was too big, and for a time there were fireworks and fireworks, and the soldiers on the city could still see the situation under the city.

The commander had no choice but to wave the command flag and let all the officers and soldiers go down to the city to chase after him, but the entrance to the building in the city was surrounded by fire, and the officers and soldiers in the city did not have any fire extinguishing tools and water sources, so they could only look at the fire and sigh, and there was nothing to do, and they watched the cavalry rush into the city.

The general commanding the city was so angry that he threw the command flag to the ground and shook his head helplessly, how could the city be destroyed in an instant by these 100 cavalry? He didn't understand it for a while, but just stood at the head of the city and sighed for a long time.